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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

— Wilkie Collins

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Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.

The Moonstone (1868)

"Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death."

People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.

The Woman in White (1859)

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The confusion of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman (1903)

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance (1893)

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

Victor Hugo Les Misérables (1862)

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